1.Review on the climate factors-based flu epidemic prediction
Di CHEN ; Peng LU ; Hongjun YANG
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;35(9):769-774
Epidemic influenza (flu) is a disease threatening the life of people for a long history.A precise forecast for the flu outbreak can warn and help health care providers to take measures to reduce the influences and harms in advance.At present,with the development of information technology,there have accumulated tremendous data of flu trends and climate information.With a history of 90 years researches about the forecast of flu trends,researchers have put forward different types of forecasting methods,and each of them has merits and demerits.Among these methods,those ones considering the key climate factors have higher precisions.Considering various methods at present,the prediction accuracy can be improved mainly from two aspects:on one hand,the forecast accuracy can be improved by effectively integrate the advantages of different models ; On the other hand,the prediction must take into account of the specific climate of an area,pathogens and the mode of transmission characteristics in order to determine the most relevant climate factors or other highly related factors with which to design a more reasonable and accurate prediction method.
2.Triple-Endobutton technique for the treatment of Tossy type III acromioclavicular joint dislocation.
Liao-jun SUN ; Di LU ; Hua CHEN
China Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2015;28(6):496-499
OBJECTIVETo evaluate the clinical outcomes and complications of Triple-Endobutton plates in treating Tossy type III acromioclavicular joint dislocation.
METHODSFrom January 2011 to January 2013,45 patients with Tossy type III acromioclavicular joint dislocation were treated with Triple-Endobutton plates. There were 35 males and 10 females with an average age of 30.5 (ranged from 19 to 60) years old. At the final follow-up, VAS, DASH, Constant-Murley criterion were used to evaluate shoulder function.
RESULTSAll patients were followed up from 15 to 36 months. No neurovascular injury, wound infection and stress fractures were found,but 3 patients had a re-dislocation. At the final follow-up,the mean VAS score was decreased from (5.7±1.6) preoperatively to postoperative (0.2±0.1); DASH score was significantly decreased from (19.6±4.3) preoperatively to (0.3±0.1) postoperatively; Constant-Murley score was improved from (34.4±4.3) before operation to (94.8± 3.5) after operation.
CONCLUSIONClinical outcomes of treating Tossy type III acromioclavicular joint dislocation with Triple-Endobutton plates is satisfactory. However, re-dislocation is still the most common complication. Careful perioperative management is an important factor in preventing re-dislocation.
Acromioclavicular Joint ; injuries ; surgery ; Adult ; Bone Plates ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Fracture Fixation, Internal ; instrumentation ; methods ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Shoulder Dislocation ; surgery ; Treatment Outcome ; Young Adult
3.Effects of individual nostalgia on positive feelings and sadness of spouses of postoperative patients with esophageal cancer
Di QIN ; Xian CHEN ; Hong LU ; Wei HAN
Modern Clinical Nursing 2017;16(5):14-17
Objective To investigate the effect of individual nostalgia therapy on positive feelings and sadness of the spouses of postoperative patients with esophageal cancer. Method From June 2014 to June 2015, 60 hospitalized patients and their 60 spouses were set as control group. Routine health education and guidance were conducted once or two times a week for 7 weeks. Another 60 cases of hospitalized patients and their 60 spouses during July 2015 and June 2016 were set up as observation group. The patients were treated with the same nursing intervention as in the control group, and their spouses were subjected to individual nostalgia treatment once a week for 7 weeks. Before the intervention (postoperative day 2) and 7 weeks after the intervention, the positive aspects of caregiving (PAC) and the Margit-Meuser caregiver grief ineventary short form (MM-CGI-SF) were used to investigate their positive feelings and sadness. Result The score on spouse's positive feelings in the observation group after intervention was significantly higher than those of the control group and that of the observation before intervention (P < 0.01). Conclusion Individual nostalgia can effectively improve the feelings of the spouses of esophageal cancer patients and reduce their grief.
4.Mechanism of "treating heart and brain with same methods" based on data science.
Di CHEN ; Shi-huan TANG ; Peng LU ; Hong-jun YANG
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2015;40(21):4288-4296
The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory of "treating heart and brain diseases with same methods (Nao Xin Tong Zhi: NXTZ)" has great significance to the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It has been proven effective by a great deal of clinical researches. However, the underlying mechanism for this theory is still unclear. To provide insights into the potential mechanism of "NXTZ", this study attempts to deeply investigate the mechanism from two representative cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, coronary heart disease (CHD) and cerebral apoplexy. First, various data resources were integrated to obtain different types of biomedical entities including drugs, targets, pathways and diseases. Then, three different approaches including text mining, biological network and enrichment analysis were utilized to recognize the potential common features between CHD and cerebral apoplexy, and the corresponding functions of drugs which could treat both diseases, thus unveiling the mechanism of NXTZ.
Brain
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drug effects
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Coronary Artery Disease
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drug therapy
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genetics
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metabolism
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Databases, Bibliographic
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Drugs, Chinese Herbal
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therapeutic use
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Heart
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drug effects
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Humans
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Stroke
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drug therapy
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genetics
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metabolism
5.Smoking status among residents in Shaoxing City
JIAN Mingzhi ; LU Di ; CHEN Jie ; JIANG Tingting
Journal of Preventive Medicine 2024;36(9):817-820,824
Objective:
To investigate the status and identify the influencing factors of smoking among residents in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, so as to provide insights into tobacco control.
Methods:
Permanent residents aged 15 to 69 years in Shaoxing City were recruited using the stratified multistage random sampling method from June to December 2022, and smoking behaviors and health literacy were collected using the National Questionnaire for Surveillance on Healthy Literacy in Chinese Residents. Factors affecting smoking were identified using a multivariable logistic regression model.
Results:
Totally 4 156 questionnaires were allocated, and 4 055 valid questionnaires were recovered, with an effective recovery rate of 97.57%. There were 1 899 men (46.83%), 2 073 residents in rural areas (51.12%), and 3 256 married residents (80.30%). There were 805 smokers, and the rate of smoking was 19.85%. Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that male (OR=169.861, 95%CI: 92.335-312.481), age (25-<35 years, OR=8.768, 95%CI: 2.964-25.937; 35-<45 years, OR=9.271, 95%CI: 3.077-27.933; 45-<55 years, OR=10.467, 95%CI: 3.498-31.327; 55-<65 years, OR=8.880, 95%CI: 2.964-26.608; 65-69 years, OR=6.115, 95%CI: 1.992-18.774), marital status (divorced, OR=2.035, 95%CI: 1.260-3.287; widowed, OR=2.317, 95%CI: 1.337-4.016), educational level (illiterate or semi-literate, OR=2.724, 95%CI: 1.515-4.898; primary school, OR=2.734, 95%CI: 1.823-4.100; junior high school, OR=2.003, 95%CI: 1.423-2.820; high school/vocational high school /technical secondary school, OR=1.625, 95%CI: 1.148-2.299), self-rated health status (general, OR=0.788, 95%CI: 0.623-0.996; relatively poor, OR=0.343, 95%CI: 0.191-0.617) and lack of basic health skills (OR=1.290, 95%CI: 1.007-1.653) were associated with smoking.
Conclusions
The smoking rate among residents in Shaoxing City is relatively low, and might be influenced by gender, age, marital status, educational level, self-rated health status, and basic health skills.
6.Effects of epinephrine-saline submucosal injection of different concentrations on endoscopic submuco-sal dissection
Lei CHEN ; Lu WANG ; Zhen ZHU ; Sujun GAO ; Li ZHANG ; Wei LU ; Di CHEN ; Haihang ZHU
Chinese Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2015;(2):107-110
Objective To evalute and compare the efficacy and safety of epinephrine-saline submu-cosal injection of different concentrations on endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD),and to discuss the best concentration of submucosal injection.Methods A total of 128 patients who underwent ESD were ran-domly assigned to submucosal normal saline injection group (group A,n =32),0.001% epinephrine-saline injection group (group B,n =32),0.002% epinephrine-saline injection group (group C,n =32),and 0.004% epinephrine-saline injection group (group D,n =32).The incidence of bleeding during and after ESD were counted,the blood preasure and heart rate of preoperative and intraoperative,the amount of sub-mucosal injection,the time of operation were observed.Results ESD was successfully performed on all pa-tients.There were no difference in highest blood preasure and fastest heart rate between preoperative and in-traoperative results of each group.No perforation or intraoperative acute massive bleeding occurred.Intraop-erative acute minimal bleeding during ESD occurred in 9 patients in group A and 3 in group B,2 in group C and 2 in group D (P <0.05),but there were no differences among group B,C and D.The amount of submu-cosal injection of group A was(39.5 ±10.8)ml,which was more than that of group B(29.4 ±9.4)ml,group C(27.3 ±8.2)ml and group D(20.4 ±11.8)ml with significant difference.There were no differences a-mong group B,C and D,but there was less in group D than group B.The operation time of group A was(82.3 ±24.78 minutes),which was longer than that of group B (60.7 ±25.35minutes),group C (54.7 ± 31.72minutes)and group D(59.2 ±28.49 minutes),but there was no difference among B,C and D group. Conclusion Epinephrine-saline submucosal injection assiting ESD is safe and effective and reduces the op-eration time and bleeding than normal saline.The increase of the epinephrine-saline concentrations has not been found to be more beneficial.
7.Recent advances in enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma.
Jian SUN ; Di YANG ; Zhao-hui LU ; Jie CHEN
Chinese Journal of Pathology 2010;39(10):717-720
Antigens, CD
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metabolism
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CD3 Complex
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metabolism
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Celiac Disease
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complications
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Chromosome Aberrations
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Enteropathy-Associated T-Cell Lymphoma
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complications
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genetics
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metabolism
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pathology
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Humans
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Integrin alpha Chains
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metabolism
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Intestinal Mucosa
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pathology
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Ki-1 Antigen
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metabolism
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Lymphoma, Extranodal NK-T-Cell
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pathology
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Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse
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pathology
8.The research and analysis of continuing education training of standardized management in community nurses in Tianjin
Ying CHEN ; Chunna LIU ; Dongying LIU ; Mei XUE ; Yuanyuan CHU ; Di LU
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2013;29(31):16-18
Objective To explore the way of continuing education training of standardized management of community nurses in Tianjin.Methods A survey was conducted with self-designed questionnaires for 462 community nurses who attended the continuing education training,and behavioral event interview was carried out for 6 directors of district health bureau who participated in the continuing education.Results The acquirements and problems of continuing education training of standardized management in Tianjin community nurses were concluded from the data analysis.Conclusions It is necessary to give continuing education training of standardized management for Tianjin community nurses.We should improve the evaluation and feedback system,attach importance to management of teaching time and teaching manner.
9.Effect of Wip1 gene silencing on chemotherapy sensitivity of human colon cancer cells
Di WU ; Zhongsheng XIA ; Wa ZHONG ; Xiji LU ; Tao YU ; Qikui CHEN
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 2015;(5):857-863
AIM:To observe the inhibitory effect of siRNA targeting to Wip1 gene on the Wip1 gene expression in the colon cancer cells and to investigate the influence of Wip1 gene silencing on the chemotherapy sensitivity of colon cancer cells.METHODS:Wip1-811 siRNA targeting to Wip1 gene was transfected into RKO colon cancer cells with high expression of Wip1 gene.The mRNA expression of Wip1 was measured by real-time PCR.The protein level of Wip1 was detected by Western blotting.The viability of RKO colon cancer cells was measured by MTS assay.The cell apoptosis and cell cycle were analyzed by flow cytometry.RESULTS: Wip1-811 siRNA efficiently inhibited the expression of Wip1 at mRNA and protein levels.The enhanced chemotherapy sensitivity of RKO colon cancer cells was observed after inhibition of Wip1 gene expression.The viability of RKO colon cancer cells was decreased from (89.4 ±6.6)%to (74.7 ±3.9)%af-ter treated with 5-fluorouracil (P<0.05) and decreased from (77.9 ±2.4)%to (66.7 ±2.9)%after treated with oxali-platin ( P<0.05 ) .The cell apoptotic rate was increased from ( 7.7 ±0.5 )% to ( 12.3 ±3.2 )% and from ( 14.7 ± 2.1)% to (34.0 ±2.1)% when RKO colon cancer cells were treated with 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin, respectively (P<0.05).CONCLUSION:Wip1 gene silencing enhances chemotherapy sensitivity of colon cancer cells.
10.Contribution of IL-17 to mouse hepatitis virus strain 3-induced acute liver failure.
Lin, ZHU ; Tao, CHEN ; Yulei, LU ; Di, WU ; Xiaoping, LUO ; Qin, NING
Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Medical Sciences) 2012;32(4):552-6
Recently, the Th17 cells and IL-17 have been shown to play a critical role in the immune-mediated liver injury in hepatitis B, while their functions in acute liver failure have not been well elucidated yet. In this study, we primarily investigated the role of IL-17 in the development of mouse hepatitis virus strain 3 (MHV-3)-induced acute liver failure. IL-17 mRNA levels in liver tissue were quantified by using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, and cytokine IL-17 levels in liver tissue and serum were determined by using ELISA in MHV-3-induced murine fulminant hepatitis model. The IL-17 expression levels on CD4(+)T and CD8(+)T cells were determined by using flow cytometry. The correlation between IL-17 level and liver injury was studied. Th17 associated cytokines were also investigated by intracellular staining. Our results showed that the IL-17 expression was significantly elevated in the liver and serum of BALB/cJ mice infected with MHV-3. Moreover, a time course study showed that the percentage of both IL-17-producing CD4(+)T cells and IL-17-producing CD8(+)T cells was increased remarkably in the liver starting from 48 h and peaked at 72 h post-infection. There was a close correlation between hepatic or serum IL-17 concentration and the severity of liver injury defined by ALT level, respectively. Th17 associated cytokines, IL-6, IL-21 and IL-22, were also increased significantly at 72 h post-infection. It was concluded that IL-17 may contribute to the pathogenesis of MHV-3-induced acute liver failure.